Show PROBLEMS S OF population the twenty second annual report made to the secretary of massachusetts in relation t on TO births deaths and marriages f presents ants some eurious curious figures relate to the year 1863 3 during which 15 boys were born and girls the excess of male deaths over female was 1264 which restores the balance of the sexes the effect of the war is shown in the fact that compared with the annual average for the five pieced ing years there is a decrease of 13 births or less than thau in the year 1860 a diminution of marriages or 1529 less than in the year 1860 and an increase of 2 deaths the natural increase to the population of the state that esthe excess of births over deaths is therefore only 2563 which is less than in tho the year 1862 and less than in the year 1861 the number of marriages was less lees than in 1862 1802 and less than in 1860 i these are also the results of the war the figures show a slight fractional increase of longevity and the whole population Is estimated at I 1 but the most remarkable fact is that indicated bythe p parentage of children born of these lan INN were of purely american parental paren parentage taN of purely foreign and 2144 0 were mixed the preponderance of foreign over native births continues to increase year after year what is the cause and what the result t that it is owing to the greater of the fhe foreign race is is evident from the fact that the majority of married couples are american in 1853 the percentage of strictly american marriages was agol which steadily increased i n somewhat till in 1857 it went down to since then it has been gradually rising tillin 1803 1863 it was and the preceding year was as high aa as the war which has drawn largely from the ranks of marriageable foreigners accounts for this but despite this the fact remains that the majority of the children born in massachusetts chu are of foreign parentage the natives in greater numbers get married but the foreigners get the children I 1 ir looks as if the philanthropic women 0 of massachusetts devoted their attention to tho the interests of humanity in every way but the simple old fashioned right way looking with intent eyes at Gario goola gha they forget the interests of home the tile philanthropic lady who dropped her infant in the fire while she was penning a tract upon the elevation of the negro sacrificed the alto aito the theoretic the women of massachusetts give out their babies lil ill like ilke e their washing and ironing to the irish to be done this is literally jabor saving and is very convenient doubtless I 1 but think of the consequences in 20 years massachusetts will be nothing but an irish colony with an infusion of of german there are already some hundreds of thousands of this class of population of the second generation born there but of unmixed foreign parentage we have no doubt these are active contributors to the population E estimate sti mate in addition to these the annual preponderance of purely foreign births 1500 1600 a year and the influx of emigration and take into consideration the geometrical rule of population familiar to the readers of malthus in 20 years what gen scott once onee called the rich trish irish bro brogue guelf guell and the I 1 sweet german accent will displace the musical nasality of the yankee in its very stronghold albany araw |